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Subject(s)

• Books of hours—France—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Catholic Church—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 54. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Books of hours [Browse]
• Gold tooled bindings [Browse]
• Gilt edges [Browse]
• Gauffered edges [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]
• Clasps [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• devotional calendars [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]
• illuminations (paintings) [Browse]
• historiated initials [Browse]
• decorated initials [Browse]
• illuminated manuscripts [Browse]
• line fillings [Browse]

Medium/​Support

parchment rdamat

Summary note

Illuminated book of hours for use of Rome.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
• Title devised by catalgoer.
• Collation: Parchment ; fol. i (paper) + 98 + iii (parchment and paper) ; catchwords ; modern foliation in pencil.
• Layout: 19 lines per page ; ruled.
• Description: Watermarks on later endpapers (bird on three hills; star in circle surmounted by a cross).
• Decoration: Late French Gothic, from the Savoy region. 11 three-quarter page, arched miniatures. 10 historiated initials. 24 calendar illustrations in medallions. 1- to 4-line initials, larger initials on gold grounds. Outer borders of foliate patterns. Line-endings in rectangles of pink and blue with white and gold geometric patterns and with gold balls, in texts colors of royal blue, carmine red, rose pink, emerald green and chalky green. See the Index of Christian art or the entry in Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library for detailed descriptions of the miniatures.
• Origin: Written and illuminated in France, probably for a woman in Lyons, or Duchy of Savoy in the mid 15th century.

Binding note

Later binding. French, early 18th century. Red morocco over pasteboard. Gold-stamped dentelle. Endbands. Edges gilt and gauffered. Remnants of two silver? and leather clasps; one section stored separately in envelope.

Language note

Latin;

Script

Textualis semi-quadrata.

Contents

• 1. fol. 2r-13v: [Calendar of Lyons?]
• 2. fol. 14r-18v: [Gospel sequences]
• 3. fol. 19r-22v: [Prayer to the Virgin]
• 4. fol. 23r-75r: [Hours of the Virgin, use of Rome]
• 5. fol. 76r-79r: [Short hours of the Cross]
• 6. fol. 79v-83r: [Short hours of the Holy Ghost]
• 7. fol. 84r-96v: [Seven penitential Psalms]

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Provenance

Intermediate provenance unknown. In the possession of Librairie Damascene Morgand around 1890. Acquired by Robert Garrett, Class of 1897 at an unknown date. His gift to Princeton University Library in 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift of Robert Garrett, 1942.

Publications about

• Edmunds, Sheila. "Catalogue des manuscrits savoyards" in Les Manuscrits enluminés des comtes et ducs de Savoie, ed. Agostino Paravicini Bagliani (Turin: 1990), p. 218.
• Northrup, Anne Dawson. "A Study of Garrett 54." Unpublished Senior Thesis, Princeton University, 1974.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 1, pages 93-96.

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

France.

OCLC

53860413

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